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Valentine's Day (18)

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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Thomas A. Edison (23)

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

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B. C. Forbes (10)

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

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William Osler (11)

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

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John Greenleaf Whittier (7)

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

218 sayings about beauty

Charles Darwin (8)

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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Norman Cousins (15)

He who keeps his cool best wins.

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Albert Camus (52)

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

424 sayings about art

Langston Hughes (7)

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

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Jane Austen (21)

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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Homer (7)

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

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Paul Valery (16)

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

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Matthew Arnold (8)

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

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William Feather (22)

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

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Helen Keller (31)

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (12)

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

424 quotes about art

Tallulah Bankhead (7)

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

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Nikos Kazantzakis (7)

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

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Jerzy Kosinski (6)

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

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Maria Mitchell (8)

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

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Babe Ruth (6)

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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